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CHRYSOME LID JD. 
widened, flavous. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 
rather strongly rounded at base, from thence nearly straight and 
slightly obliquely narrowed towards apex ; surface deeply but 
sparsely punctured, punctures partly confluent, forming small 
smooth yellow tubercles. Scutellum finely punctured, with dark 
margins. Elytra broad and flat, slightly wider than thorax, 
extreme basal margin strongly carinate near scutellum ; surface 
closely and irregularly punctured to middle, interstices rugose, 
rugosities more strongly marked outwards, yellow on a dark 
ground-colour ; two somewhat feeble costae between shoulders and 
suture, another from shoulder to apex ; behind the middle more 
numerous and strongly raised costae, about nine in number, all 
flavous. Pygidium finely punctured and pubescent, dark brown 
margined with flavous. Legs witli dark margins to femora and 
tibiae, the latter curved. 
“ Length 5 mm. 
“ Bab. India.” ( Suffrian .) 
461. Pachybrachys poecilopterus, Buffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 
1860, p. 65. 
This species is probably nothing but a darker variety of the 
preceding one. Suffrian points out that the coloration is darker 
and that the elytra have a transverse 
curved flavous band at middle, in shape 
of a ridge. All this agrees with several 
specimens before me in the collection of 
M. Clavareau. There are, however, speci- 
mens intermediate, both in coloration and 
sculpture, which may be referred to either 
species. In one specimen the elytra are 
entirely dark brown with a sutural patch 
below scutellum. The thorax has a lateral 
band (not mentioned by Suffrian) and 
another brown spot at middle of base ; and 
in the female (the only sex known to 
Suffrian) the transverse elytral ridge is 
very distinct in one specimen. Several 
smaller individuals from the same locality, 
which are no doubt the males, are much 
paler, with the elytral ridge only indicated at the sides, and with 
the costae at apex uniting in pairs, one costa at suture and one 
near the margins, long but not extending to apex, with two short 
costae between the others, the inner costa is the longest. Breast 
and legs entirely flavous. Everything else as in P. rubiginosns. 
Length 4-5 mm. 
Hah. Konbir ; Southern India {Colls. Clavareau and Jacoby). 
Fig. 104 . — Pachybrachys 
pcecilopterus. 
